SKU, (Full) [feat. Knova, Eddie Wellz, Sahar the Star, PK Tha Poet, Lauriel, Fransisco Phoenics, Kye Russoul, Lewis Santana, Leewater, Ronnie Dijon, Qosmic Qadence, Jay Tatum, Chari' Joy, Dom Root, Theresa Lovely, StoneOnSax, Cofey & Stefani Monet]

Yeah
Barcodes on our skin tone
It's all good 'til it hits home
Our goal is to win, though
But it's a far throw to the endzone
That's why we're afraid to be admitted
'cause it's all codes in the end, yo
Then the cop that put you in there is acquitted
Nah, bro, that's a big "No"
Even after they admitted that they did it, and the witnesses filming the cops showed you,
They still don't get what they deserve
But we get it
Since you lit the flame, you gotta know that you get smoke
We fight back, we're not supposed to up and just "go"
Listen: our coping mechanisms don't do enough
Pay attention to the protests
The world listened? Cool. What's next?
We gotta try to keep that fire lit right where our heart is
They indicted a couple of police, but we will finish what we started
Even though it was harder, and you begin to realize they were treating you like a modern day martyr
Father forgive me-wait, they keep taking our fathers and slaughtering them all over the world
But it's time that we spoke
Either you want us to live, or you don't
Even so, there's potential for growth
But we-wait, where are all the children?
What do you mean you "don't know"?
They were "sold"?
See, how we supposed to have faith in our vote when all the politicians higher than the state are in the know?
Nah, dismantle the whole system
And if all lives matter, you should stand here with us
The injustice will not prevail
You hear me?
Feel me?
Felt me?
Help me!

Tell me, who do we run to when there's no one by my side?
Tell me, where we supposed to go when there's nowhere left to hide?
Tell me, what do you see in me when you look into my eyes?
But if all lives matter, why I gotta die?
Stop killing us
Stop killing us, yeah
Stop killing us
Stop killing us

This the way that we been feeling for a minute
If you could measure pain, ours would be up in the Guinness
See, the world's so quick to get offended
Crazy that the same world will leave us all defenseless
But I ain't ever bowing to supremacy
Unless it's the supreme divinity that I see in me
I understand love is the remedy
But sometimes I just need to know where that Remy be
Where my people at?
What's the state of Hip-Hop?
Who been reppin' black?
Who been reading all the reasons that they set us back?
Who been studying the history and what's the facts?
Who been teaching all the youth with the blessed wisdom?
Who been touching all the meek to get their stress lifted?
It's been about time we on a new mission
For conditions, and additions to these transitions
It's the glitches that'll save us from this dark system
No "S" on my chest, I'm no Clark Kent
I'm more T'Challa, but this ain't Wakanda
So I guess I'm Killmonger, 'cause my heart bent
If it ain't broken in the trash bin
But I think I just found my second wind
Tell these crooked cops that they ain't never win
Tell all of my people that I love 'em and I'm always thinking 'bout 'em 'til the very end

I am not asking
I am demanding
I do not know what you're not understanding
I am not asking
I am demanding
Stop killing us
Stop killing us
Stop killing us

I need revisions for my niggas 'cause they got us twisted
2020 got the sun shining a little different
May rays fall onto skin that's white
What's a Gentile to a Israelite
I'm like a pit on a chain with some fleas, I'm just itching to fight
'cause every app got a vid of family losing their life
Sisters mishandled while pregnant; I see trauma and strife
Screen reflections of a glare off the gloss in my eyes
Still ain't numb to it
All the news dumb to it
Shorty only 8, I had to break my oldest son to it
Granny shed a tear, 'cause she prayed we wouldn't come to this
Laid a sold path in the past, but we ain't run through it
Time to change some policies, 'cause we done made enough music
Mobbin' in the streets as a unit; that's just one movement
Gotta put the knight in a position we can best use it
(Yeah)
We really out here walking up, they really out here gunning down
Really want equality, they scared we seek revenge now
(They scared, they scared)
We really out here walking up, they really out here gunning down
Really want equality, they scared we seek revenge now
(They scared, they scared, they scared, they scared)

Check
I'm always in the wrong; you always in the right
I'm always in the dark; you always in the light
You shot me down 'cause you seen that my future was bright
Now you feel no remorse, privileged 'cause your skin is white
Damn
Stop killing us
Stop killing us
No, no, no
Stop
Yeah

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Ah, no

It's the dawn of a new day
Revolution well past the due date
Charitable moves just a little too late
Unapologetic
We rise so the ancestors don't regret it
And if the generation before us did drop the ball
We pick it back up by going trampling the malls
Brick by brick until Babylon fall
Good to see you niggas onto somethin' other than the C.R.E.A.M.
Damn, thought y'all forgot about the dream (Oh, no)
Amongst other things, they tryna get us with a vaccine (Oh, no)
Couple of years later, you won't even be able to bear a queen (Oh, no)
There's a war goin' on outside black man ain't safe from
Until you turning to adjacent (Hee)
Black and white together, too? (Oou)
Shit, that's mason (Hee)
Tryin' they hardest to forget about the bacon
Rebellion, oh
(Wasn't that on American soil?)
For the mascots capin' in the streets for the beasts
You could get it, too
Hip-Hop generations
Man, we with it too
Actual change is the only thing that we committed to
Fear of a Black planet
They can't stand it
Oh, my
Oh, my

I'm just tryna make something happen for my passion
But some niggas wanna see me crash
Racin' on this road tryna chase success
Tryna reach my goals so my kids be blessed
Big heart never lackin', I'm a Black man
Good soul, yeah, I know myself
Prayin' up to God, yeah, I know my health
Prayin' up to God, yeah, I know myself
So, stop killin' us
Stop killin' us
Stop killin' us

Both hands to God, with praying hands up
When we doin' that, they tyin' our hands up (Why)
We already tried puttin' our hands up (Real)
When we bring 'em down, we pickin' our mans up (Why)
It's the same story again and again
A couple of my friends is still in the wind (Still)
How can we think righteous, livin' in sin? (How)
Better be glad we want peace instead of revenge (Real)
Look into my eyes
Can you see the pain?
Time to take the rhetoric and change some things
Introduce equality and change the game
It's all about a dollar but we came for change
"I can't breathe" (Nah) has really been the moniker
Tryna live life, but we can't 'til Your Honor call
Set me free (Free)
Free to be the King that I am
Bless my Queens to be free and be free to do them
Let my brothers out them chains and be free to do them
We said "Let Freedom Ring", show me freedom again
I just wanna live wealthy and free with the pen
But this country want me dead, or never free from the pen
When we all ride together for a real cause, that's a revolution
We ask for justice, they give us excuses
Who really problematic when we came for solutions?
Universal movement
Gotta change the blueprint

To us it feel like we martyrs
But to them we just targets
All because my skin darker
They quick to blam and just off us, yeah
It don't matter who in office, yeah
Black life fills up them coffins, yeah
Y'all plant the seeds, now this harvest
Y'all plant the seeds
Stop killin' us
Stop killin' us
Stop killin' us
Stop killin' us, yeah

Our tears fertilize their wealth while we six feet
Prayin' that my momma get a chance to close her eyes when she sleep
'Cause there's murder on my mind if you take one of mine, no
I want peace, we need peace, we want peace, no
Black lives matter, no, I'm a lighter skin
Tell me how can I win when my skin is my sin
When my hands in the sky and you let them bullets fly
I want peace, you took my kind, I killed y'all twice though
I'm tired of hurtin', watchin' it all
My voice is starting to lose its surface
I'm shaking, I'm breaking, I'm breaking, I'm shaking, I'm breaking
Stop killing us
I can't breathe
I ca
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe

America ain't always been beautiful, face it
Land taken by forced enslavement
Renamed and paved with hatred
This bitch has been blatantly racist
Our hands up, you still shoot
We can't breathe. No justice? We loot
It ain't about burning down our community
That there's a demonstration of our power when we mutiny
Keep ignorin' us we'll burn this country down today
That's reparations, our ancestors built it anyway
Revolution without revolt sounds ridiculous
No longer are we asking you bastards
Stop killing us
Stop killing us
Stop killing us
Stop killing us

Tryna put a SKU on our life, yeah
Tryna put a SKU on our life, yeah
What you gonna do when we fight back?
What you gonna do when we fight back?
Tryna put a SKU on our life, yeah
Tryna put a SKU on our life, yeah
What you gonna do when we fight back?
What you gonna do when we fight back?

Tryna put a SKU on our life, yeah
Tryna put a SKU on our life, yeah
What you gonna do when we fight back?
What you gonna do when we fight back?
Tryna put a SKU on our life, yeah
Tryna put a SKU on our life, yeah
What you gonna do when we fight back?
What you gonna do when we fight back?

I done seen the soul escape the eyes too many times now
I could hear your mama's heart break when she was cryin' out
Too many people playin' God, and it's sick
How does anger turn to murder so quick?
Got a lotta hearts filled with hatred, malicious intent
Does God forgive everyone who repents?
There's oppression in the air and we been smellin' the scent
Got familiar with the fragrance and been wearin' it since
We done kept hope alive and kept on marchin'
Kept it peaceful, but our people gettin' slaughtered
Everybody "Sis"; we unified like son and daughter
Gotta keep uprootin' the seeds they tryna water
We need reparation for the legislation
Written with loopholes to keep us enslaved
We need reparation for appropriation
If you appreciate us
Then change your wicked ways

I'm here for a cause
Don't say those things, don't stay out too long
None of those houses really felt like home
I did nothing wrong, seems like you want me gone
My weapon is my microphone
Stop killing us (Stop, stop)
Stop killing us
Stop killing us
Stop killing us

Who do we call?
How do we fight?
When no matter what to do, they claim that it ain't right?
Make it about the flag, so we breaking the ruse
We just tryna stay alive and not end up in tombs
Take your finger off the trigger, man, so y'all can't shoot
Pressure on the system 'til we bust through the roof
These voices unified, so we speaking in tune
These voices amplified, so we reaching the youth
What if the red on the back of the bullet belonged to you
They ain't 'bout to check the tag, they just ready to shoot
Then we gon' need a price check on 2
Nip this tree at the roots
80 proof my liquor, 3 whole 5ths for the crew
We pour up in the night time for the ones that we lost
Black bodies with targets on 'em, how much does it cost?
How much does it cost?
How much does it cost? (Yeah)

Tell me, how many times must I die before your eyes until you can see me?
How many chants must I cry to be heard?
"No fear," they say
Carry on, we'll make way
Create a new lane, a new world for our boys and girls
We can...
We can, "Hands up, don't shoot"
We can, "I love you too"
We can, "I don't wanna die young"
We can, "I don't have a gun, stop shootin'. They lootin'"
Mind over body; you minding my body
I can't breathe
"You promised you wouldn't kill me"
Stop killing us
Stop killing us
Stop killing us
Stop killing us

Mama, I'm tired of fightin'
Mama, I'm tired of cryin'
Mama, I can't take no mo'
What I'm fightin' for
Stop killing us
Stop
Stop killing us
Stop killing us

Ooo, I just want to breathe
Ooo, I just wanna breathe
You know, they labeled with SKUs, and, yo, it starts in the schools
Reflecting the truth, you know, aligning my moves
I'm teaching the youth, you know I pay for that, too
Conditioning tools just to follow some rules
Education or patience to uprise through abuse
Let me water you, child, so you can harvest your fruit
Come sit for a while and feel your toes in the dirt
No pressure to bloom when you're rooted in truth
Won't you breathe, won't you breathe, won't you breathe?
Just breathe
Won't you breathe?
I just wanna transfer love out towards your soul
Let your body know you're whole
Give your heart out through yourself
Your mind's been searching in these holes
We can root and plant a seed; grow unto infinity
Won't you breathe?
Stop killing us
Stop killing us

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